Few months back, one of my friend had brought a capsicum dish in her lunch box. I tasted it and immediately liked the sweet and spicy taste of it. I thought she had put some coconut in it, bacause of the name Kairas, Coconut being called as kaayi in Kannada. But I was surprised when she gave me the recipe, there was no coconut in it!!!. All this discussion had happened on lunch table and by the time I reached my desk, I had forgotten the recipe (thanks to my poor memory). So I kept on searching for the recipe.
Then few months back, I was going through a recipe book and found the Kairas recipe in the “Goa Cuisine” section. When I tried it, it was superb. Recently I saw one more version of it in Ashwini’s blog .
Ingredients: Capsicums 4 Potatoes 2 Asafoetida(hingu) a pinch Cashews and pea nuts 2 tbl spns Tamarind extract 1 tea spn Jaggery 1 tbl spn Coriander leaves 5-6 strands Chana dal 2 tbl spns Sesame seeds(Til) 2 tbl spns Coriander seeds 1 tbl spn Red chillies 5-6 Oil Salt
Method: Roast(without oil) chana dal, sesame seeds, coriander seeds and red chillies and grind them to powder. Heat oil and fry peanuts/cashews, capsicums and potatoes(both cut into large pieces) for about 5mins. Add asafoetida and nuts. Fry for another 2-3 mins. Add the ground powder, tamarind, salt and jaggery. Add very little water if required. Close the lid and cook on a low flame. Garnish with chopped coriander and serve hot with chapathi or rice.
Serves : 4 Preparation time : 30mins.
Simple Egg Cake
Sharing the cake recipes, that I have tried recently, was on my to-do list for a long time. I thought may be I can start with this cake. I have posted banana cake recipe a few days back, but this will be the first recipe anybody will give you, if you want to learn baking cakes).
I am successfully pursuing the baking art and its whole and sole credit should go to my Pachi(Aayi’s sister). When I was a kid, many times I observed her baking some delicious cakes. I always wondered, ‘How she manages to do that? Only professional bakers are supposed to do that!!! Its such a big procedure’. I never thought one day I would bake cakes!!. I never even tried to ask her about the recipe.
Then when we got our first oven, Pachi gave me this recipe. I prepared it and it was so good and it was so easy :D. Still this cake is on my favorite list.
Ingredients: 1 cup butter 1 and 1/4 cups sugar 1 and 1/2 cups maida or All purpose flour 1 tea spn baking powder 4 eggs 1 tea spn vanilla essence/extract
Method: Preheat the oven at 350F for 10min. Sieve together flour and powder. Keep it aside. Beat sugar in butter till it becomes a smooth paste. Then add one egg at a time beating it all the time. Add essence and mix. Add flour 1 tbl spoon at a time mixing slowly. Grease an oven safe dish with butter. Then sprinkle some flour on it and spread the flour. Now pour the cake mixture into this dish and bake the cake for around 40min at 350F (or till a knife inserted in the cake comes out clean).
Serves : 4 Preparation time : 1hr
